Custer’s battlefield artifacts. #CustersLastStand | Jeff Schreckler

Custer National Cemetery. Like many other national cemeteries, Custer National Cemetery was created after those killed in battle were already buried here. Between 1877 and 1881, troops garrisoned at nearby Fort Custer (modern-day town of Hardin, Montana) regularly gathered remains for reburial, recovered graves, and policed the battlefield for exposed bones. The first of these details disinterred and collected all identified officers, except Lieutenant John Crittenden. Lt. Crittenden was left wh

Artifacts Found At Custers last Camp and At Little Bighorn Battlefield #custer #laststand #littlebighorn | Jeff Schreckler

Valley of death “Custers Last Stand The phrase "marking the dead last stand hill" refers to the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, where white marble markers indicate where fallen soldiers of the 7th Cavalry were found after Custer's Last Stand in 1876. #Custer #sittingbull #laststandhill #fblifestyle | Jeff Schreckler